1793  25 May  Halifax  

565. James Putnam to Gideon White, in reply to his letter to Lieutenant Governor Wentworth. "The Governor desires me to say that he is much obliged to you for the tender of your services, and that it would have afforded him great pleasure to have had you in his Regiment, but that it is quite out of his power, all the officers having been engaged long before your letter came to hand." Whitworth is not eligible because he is not a halfpay officer.  Holograph.

White Family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 Vol. 950 No. 565